O2BDumb
December 22, 2006, 5:04pm
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Through word-of-mouth rumor, I heard that Playstation 3 was causing damage to television sets and that it was being recalled.
Unfortunately, I must have missed the news and can’t seem to find anything on the internet other than a forum which they claim that the recall is baloney.
Is the damage rumor true and has PS3 been damaging tv sets, and which types?
mlees
December 22, 2006, 6:15pm
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I would imagine that in the case of recalls, the manufacturers web site should have that info buried somewhere in it.
You could also contact the vendor (e.g. Best Buy, CompUSA) to see if they have any info on that.
Are you sure it was the PS3?
Millions of straps for the Nintendo Wii have been recalled based upon reports that the straps have broken in mid-action with the result that people have damaged their televisions and other property with suddenly flung remotes.
I once heard that the Xbox was causing damage to TV sets “because the graphics are so powerful man” :rolleyes:.
Not a recall, but it seems Sony is having problems with HDTV and backwards compativility:
720p PS3 games downscale on older HD sets
Solved in the latest firmware release? No.
Besides not solwing that, SONY seems to like to make things more complicated:
What has been fixed: the system has given a higher priority to 1080i signals so, if available, the console will default to 1080i over 720p. This means that if your HDTV supports 720p, and a game’s native resolution (like Resistance: Fall of Man) is 720p, it should display fine in that resolution. If the native resolution is 1080p (NBA07, the XMB interface, Blu-ray movies) and your set supports 1080i and 720p, the console will automatically default to 1080i due to the higher preference, regardless of what your preference is. If you disable the 1080i output so everything will play in your preferred 720p, your Blu-ray movies will drop down to 480p. We’re not really sure what problem this update was intended to fix or why the resolution hierarchy isn’t user selectable .
Luckily, most new HDTVs support both 720p and 1080i making these issues moot for many gamers, but we’re hoping (really, it’s on our Xmas list) that the eggheads at Sony are working on a holiday-themed upgrade to support downscaling Blu-ray movies to 720p and upscaling some games (like Resistance) to 1080i.
As for backwards compativility:
http://www.ps3center.net/story-132.html
To add to the laundry list of problems that Sony needs to fix is something which Joystiq.com reported on. It was based on a video that popped up on YouTube recently which highlighted the problems around the PlayStation 3’s ability to do backwards compatibility with the PlayStation 2 console.
It seems that when the PS3 emulates the PSone and PS2, game look far worse than if they were played on their original console homes. Ironically it seems that PS2 games look much better on a $100 console than on a $600 console which does not bode well for Sony.
The video on YouTube shows a side-by-side video comparison which shows a PS2 title playing on a PS2 vs. a PS3 and I have to say that the images shown are fairly startling to say the least. The PS2 side is clear and the PS3 side shows a lot of jaggies, color mishaps, etc.